2,105 research outputs found

    Award winning author, journalist Daniel L. Coberly to Speak

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    Tollefson, Elizabeth. (2018). Award winning author, journalist Daniel L. Coberly to Speak. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/224033

    The life of Elizabeth Prentiss, author of Stepping heavenward.

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    "List of Mrs. Prentiss' writings" : v. 2, p. 342-351."Her letters ... with extracts from her journals, form the larger portion." cf. Prefatory note signed : G. L. P. [i. e. George L. Prentiss]Appeared (1882) under title : The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss.Mode of access: Internet

    The influence of L-arginine on the self-medication behaviour of Drosophila Melanogaster larvae

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    The theory of self-medication works on the premise that sick animals will change their diet to incorporate food substances that are not part of their usual diet, that will cure or alleviate the disease. It is a behaviour that is rarely seen in healthy animals. Immunonutrition is another form of self -medication usually used by humans and is the use of specific nutrients to alleviate symptoms, stimulate the immune system and promote recovery. In this study we investigate the self-medication ability of Drosophila melanogaster larvae when given the choice of food containing differing concentrations of L-arginine. L-arginine is essential amino acid known to benefit the D. melanogaster immune system. L-arginine concentrations of up to 50mM promote the encapsulation response in D. melanogaster parasitised by the endoparasitic wasp Asobara tabida with a maximum encapsulation rate achieved with 50 mM L-arginine. In a series of choice tests using 0mM, 10mM, 50mM and 250mM L-arginine it was established that both unparasitised and parasitised larvae were able to discriminate between different L-arginine concentrations and parasitised larvae discriminated in favour of 50mM L-arginine. This suggests that self-medication behaviour may occur in parasitised D. melanogaster larvae with regards to L-arginine

    Tudor women writers fashioning masculinity

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    This thesis contributes to the growing interest in early modern masculinity and its literary representations by introducing texts by women writers into dialogue with their male-authored counterparts. It argues for a more nuanced approach that recognises that the concepts of masculinity and femininity can only be fully understood when studied in relation with each other. The first chapter explores how, notwithstanding the wisdom of conduct books and marriage guides, the demands of the state may not always be commensurate with those of the domestic realm and shows that this conflict necessitates a rethinking of existing definitions of masculinity by focusing on selected writings of the Tudor sisters Mary and Elizabeth and Jane Fitzalan’s *Tragedie of Iphigeneia*. The second chapter identifies how Elizabeth’s unique discursive strategies were designed to elicit support from her male subjects and subdue the belligerence that simmered under polemic like John Stubbs’ *Gaping Gulf*. In her letters to Anjou, the chapter examines how Elizabeth manoeuvred around her position as a beloved and as a monarch to fashion a husband who would not only be sympathetic but also subordinate to her political authority. This chapter also shows how the fabulous world of John Lyly’s *Galatea* consummates the Queen’s desire for the ideal male subject. The final chapter investigates the construction of martial manhood. It juxtaposes Mary Sidney’s *The Tragedy of Antonie* with William Shakespeare’s *Antony and Cleopatra* to determine how the figure of Cleopatra, common to both plays, challenges and revises the martial code of masculinity as embodied by Antony. By examining the authorial position appropriated by Cleopatra in the plays and its impact on the narrative, this chapter also extends this thesis’ interest in the extent to which female characters within texts compete for diegetic control with male protagonists

    Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects

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    PhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney, Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and social being. In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation. However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation. In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject

    RoMEO Studies 2: How academics wish to protect their open-access research paper

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    This paper is the second in a series of studies (see Gadd, E., C. Oppenheim, and S. Probets. RoMEO Studies 1: The impact of copyright ownership on author-self-archiving. Journal of Documentation. 59(3) 243-277) emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It considers the protection for research papers afforded by UK copyright law, and by e-journal licences. It compares this with the protection required by academic authors for open-access research papers as discovered by the RoMEO academic author survey. The survey used the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) as a framework for collecting views from 542 academics as to the permissions, restrictions, and conditions they wanted to assert over their works. Responses from self-archivers and non-archivers are compared. Concludes that most academic authors are primarily interested in preserving their moral rights, and that the protection offered research papers by copyright law is way in excess of that required by most academics. It also raises concerns about the level of protection enforced by e-journal licence agreement

    Bull trout conservation and recovery in the Odell Lake core area: distribution, behavior, ecology, and fisheries evaluations (2013-2014)

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    Michael H. Meeuwig, Steve J. Starcevich, Elizabeth J. Bailey, Shaun P. Clements, and Joshua L. McCormick.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-68).Funding for this project was provided in part by USFWS (F14AF01131 and F13AF01080).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English

    Correction to: Exploring multi-level system factors facilitating educator training and implementation of evidence-based practices (EBP): a study protocol

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    After publication of the original article [1] it was brought to our attention that author Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick was erroneously included as Elizabeth McGee Hassrick. The correct spelling of the author’s name is included in the author list of this erratum

    Métricas de autor Laura Elizabeth Castro Jiménez

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    Informe de las métricas de autor de la Dra. Laura Elizabeth Castro Jiménez de las publicaciones indexadas en Google Académico cuyo objetivo es entregar un insumo para el fortalecimiento de las capacidades y potencialidades de los autores de la Universidad Santo Tomás en el posicionamiento y visibilidad de sus publicacionesReport of the author metrics of Laura Elizabeth Castro Jiménez of the publications indexed in Google Scholar whose objective is to provide an input for the strengthening of the capacities and potentialities of the authors of the Santo Tomás University in the positioning and visibility of their publications.http://unidadinvestigacion.usta.edu.c
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